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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Cornel West

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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Believe Brother Gay

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